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In two small focus groups of law enforcement, one of Harris voters and one of Trump voters, the Harris voters in stark and thoughtful terms explain how ICE and Border Patrol are acting unprofessionally and unjustly. The Trump voters seemed to have a lower desire to talk and were more defensive of ICE, but didn’t fully support all the shots fired either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMqwOnfjedE
Local police have to be careful about how long they hold illegals in their jails, because it isn’t legal for them to hold people longer than a certain amount of time.
Some police departments don’t cooperate with ICE because it erodes trust with the people they serve, which makes their main job, local policing, more difficult.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8dEvZ0ZkQQ
WOW: Fox host FURIOUS at ICE over latest shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roX17iy4X9s
“An officer shoves a person next to Pretti. Pretti steps between them, holding his hands up as the officer sprays a substance toward his face. Pretti appears to be holding his phone in his right hand, and his left hand is empty.
Several more officers surround Pretti, bringing him to the ground near the curb as they hit him repeatedly.
Just before the first gunshot, one officer emerges from the scrum. The first shot is then heard, followed by more gunfire as the camera swings away.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/video-shows-shooting-alex-pretti-234643994.html
An agent removes the man’s holstered gun, then another shoots him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz0v3RiXaJM
It looks like ICE saw that the man was armed, and shot him. Being armed is legal, and just being armed doesn’t make someone a threat. ICE started the physical altercation with him and he doesn’t seem to be reaching for his gun or anything like that, although the video isn’t clear.
Like Renee Good, the Trump administration blatantly lied about the situation, giving us no confidence that the situation will be properly investigated. Blatantly lying about the state killing a citizen is a hallmark sign of a tyranny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdLhbQNELJY
The US rebelled against Britain partially because the British would invade people’s homes based on warrants signed by the executive themselves, rather than by a judge approving the justification of the warrant. That’s why the Constitution has the fourth amendment. ICE tried to secretly start using monarchical British-style warrants to invade people’s homes without a real warrant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGr-yWEu0hc
“Menendez’s order bars Homeland Security and ICE officials involved in Operation Metro Surge from “using pepper-spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools against persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity.” The judge also prohibited federal agents from stopping vehicles following them, as long as those vehicles are maintaining a safe and “appropriate” distance.
“The First Amendment protects speech and peaceful assembly — not rioting,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “DHS is taking appropriate and constitutional measures to uphold the rule of law and protect our officers and the public from dangerous rioters. We remind the public that rioting is dangerous — obstructing law enforcement is a federal crime and assaulting law enforcement is a felony.””
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/16/ice-minneapolis-arrests-judge-protests-00735416?_bhlid=b376075801834ad0b250c6bc586df392cbc430ab&utm_campaign=the-smile-1-21&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=www.readthesmile.com
The Vice President either did terrible research, or lied. He said that ICE had no choice but to detain the five year old boy because his illegal father ran and abandoned the child. He failed to mention that another adult living in the home begged ICE to let him stay with them, and that they used the 5-year old as bait to see if they could capture anyone else in the home.
Multiple police chiefs met and said that their off-duty non-white police officers were being harassed by ICE. The Vice President dismissed this as something someone said on the internet, and claimed that they take accusations of discrimination seriously while dismissing credible claims of exactly that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDjdY_zkemM
“The agent’s resignation comes as the agency has undergone another purge of seasoned FBI agents across several states, multiple sources familiar with the departures told CNN. Some of the people who are being pushed out were confronted after the bureau conducted a review of the FBI’s internal messaging system and discovered instances when they made negative comments about President Donald Trump, according to the people familiar.
Some of those comments go as far back as a decade, the sources said.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fbi-agent-initially-investigated-fatal-003658751.html